Job 28:25
When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
In Context
24For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.
26When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;
Cross References
Job 37:15Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?
Job 38:5By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
Isaiah 40:12In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
Matthew Henry on Job 28:21-28
The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. ( b. c. 1520.) 20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the… Read the whole commentary →